19. What's the purpose of Mr. Saunders visit? 20. What is Mr. Saunders current job? 21. What can we conclude from the conversation? Conversation 2 M: Hey, Karen, you are not really reading it, are you? W: Pardon? M: The book! You havent turned the page in the last ten minutes W: No, Jim, I suppose I havent. I need to get through it, though, but I keep drifting away M: So it doesn't really hold your interest? W: No, not really. I wouldn't bother with it, to be honest, but I have to read it for a seminar. I'm at a university M: It's a labor of labor then rather than a labor of love w: I should say, I dont like Dickens at all really, the author, indeed, I am starting to like the whole course less and less M: It's not just the book,, it's the curse as well? W: Yeah, in a way, although the curse itself isn' t really that bad, a lot of it is pretty good, in fact, and the lecturer is fine, as to me, I suppose, you see, I want to do philosophy rather than English, but my parents took me out of it M: So the courses are OK as such, it's just that had if been left to you, you would choose a different one w: Oh, they had my best interest and heart of course, my parents, they always do, dont they? They believe that my job prospect would be pretty limited with the degree of philosophy. Plus, they give me a really generous allowance, but I am beginning to feel that I'm wasting my time and their money. They would be so disappointed though if I told them I was quitting 22. Why can't Karen concentrate on the book? 23. Why is Karen starting to like the course less and less? 24. Who thinks Philosophy graduates have limited job opportunities? 25. What is Karen thinking of doing Section b Passage One In Greece, only rich people will rest in peace for ever when they die. Most of the population owever, will be undisturbed for only three years, then they will be dug up, washed, compressed into a small tin box, and placed in a bone room. If the body has only partially decayed, it is reburied in a smaller cheaper grave, but not for long, the body will be dug up again some time later when it has fully decayed. Buying a piece of land for a grave is the only way to avoid this process. The cost of the grave is so great that most pOeople choose to rent the grave for three years and even after it has been dug up, lasting peace is still not guaranteed If no one pays for renting space in the bone room, the skeleton is removed and stored in a building in a poor part of the town Lack of space in Athens is the main reason why the dead are dug up after the three years. The city grave is found. Athens'city council wants to introduce cremation that is burning dead bodies as a means of dealing with the problems. But the Greek church resists this practice, they believe the only place where people burn is hell, so burning dead bodies is against the Greek concept of life after death. To save space, the church suggested burying the bodies standing up instead of lying19. What’s the purpose of Mr. Saunders’ visit? 20. What is Mr. Saunders’ current job? 21. What can we conclude from the conversation? Conversation 2 M: Hey, Karen, you are not really reading it, are you? W: Pardon? M: The book! You haven’t turned the page in the last ten minutes. W: No, Jim, I suppose I haven’t. I need to get through it, though, but I keep drifting away. M: So it doesn’t really hold your interest? W: No, not really. I wouldn’t bother with it, to be honest, but I have to read it for a seminar. I’m at a university. M: It’s a labor of labor then rather than a labor of love. W: I should say, I don’t like Dickens at all really, the author, indeed, I am starting to like the whole course less and less. M: It’s not just the book,, it’s the curse as well? W: Yeah, in a way, although the curse itself isn’t really that bad, a lot of it is pretty good, in fact, and the lecturer is fine, as to me, I suppose, you see, I want to do philosophy rather than English, but my parents took me out of it. M: So the courses are OK as such, it’s just that had if been left to you, you would choose a different one. W: Oh, they had my best interest and heart of course, my parents, they always do, don’t they? They believe that my job prospect would be pretty limited with the degree of philosophy. Plus, they give me a really generous allowance, but I am beginning to feel that I’m wasting my time and their money. They would be so disappointed though if I told them I was quitting. 22. Why can’t Karen concentrate on the book? 23. Why is Karen starting to like the course less and less? 24. Who thinks Philosophy graduates have limited job opportunities? 25. What is Karen thinking of doing? Section B Passage One In Greece, only rich people will rest in peace for ever when they die. Most of the population, however, will be undisturbed for only three years, then they will be dug up, washed, compressed into a small tin box, and placed in a bone room. If the body has only partially decayed, it is reburied in a smaller cheaper grave, but not for long, the body will be dug up again some time later when it has fully decayed. Buying a piece of land for a grave is the only way to avoid this process. The cost of the grave is so great that most p0eople choose to rent the grave for three years and even after it has been dug up, lasting peace is still not guaranteed. If no one pays for renting space in the bone room, the skeleton is removed and stored in a building in a poor part of the town. Lack of space in Athens is the main reason why the dead are dug up after the three years. The city is so overcrowded that sometimes dead bodies are kept in the hospitals for over a week until a grave is found. Athens’ city council wants to introduce cremation, that is burning dead bodies as a means of dealing with the problems. But the Greek church resists this practice, they believe the only place where people burn is hell, so burning dead bodies is against the Greek concept of life after death. To save space, the church suggested burying the bodies standing up instead of lying